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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
26 January 2011
Did Sky have a choice?
Did Sky have a choice on whether or not to fire Andy Gray? Sexual harassment is defined in the Equality Act as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. Certainly Sky would have a case to answer based on press reports of his behaviour while Gray was their employee...
26 January 2011
Will Andy Gray sue Sky?
After all the recent interest in Miriam O’Reilly’s age discrimination employment tribunal claim against the BBC, there has been widespread media coverage this week of a very different sort of employment dispute: the row over the behaviour of Sky Sports’ presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
18 January 2011
Shared parental leave: wishful thinking?
Yesterday, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, outlined the Coalition Government’s proposals to overhaul shared parental leave, claiming that the current “Edwardian” rules “patronise women and marginalise men”.
13 January 2011
Another one bites the dust
This is a truly historic day in the history of the development of age discrimination legislation. The Default Retirement Age has bitten the dust. Workers of all ages will now enjoy the same protection and will be managed in exactly the same way (well almost – life is never quite that simple!)
6 January 2011
Thorny issue - legal costs in Employment Tribunals
In a judgment that will interest employers facing vexatious employment tribunal claims from employees, ex-employees, prospective employees or just about anyone else with a grievance, in the case of Yerrakalva v Barnsley MBC the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dealt with the thorny issue of legal costs in the Employment Tribunal (ET).